Presents
Having prepared your text, including numbers and images, it's natural
to want to present it. Presents is the Applixware Office application
used for preparing presentations. The basic idea is to prepare a
series of slides - which may be actual slides, or overheads,
or paper pages, or even screen images. The slide preparation interface
is very similar to Graphics, so much so
that you suspect they may be the same program with different Preferences settings. However, Presents
has a selection of templates and canned presentation types to help you
get started. It also provides a storyboard interface, and an outliner
interface, as well as the ability to attach author's notes to each
slide. Finally, it lets you play the slides back on the
screen. Playing back slides with transitions that included moving
objects would cause Applixware Office to exit unexpectedly. Other than
that, Presents is a perfectly workable utility for preparing
presentations in several formats.
Mike W. Meyer
March, 2001